Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga could just see his chance to join the Oakland Athletics' Dallas Braden and the Philadelphia Phillies' Roy Halladay in the 2010 perfect game club getting closer and closer.
Galarraga was just one out away from the perfect game mark tonight against the Cleveland Indians when the unthinkable happened. Umpire Jim Joyce called what should have been a run-to-tag-the-plate out as an infield hit. Here's the video:
As you can see Armando beat Cleveland's Jason Donald to the bag; Donald was clearly tagged out at base because Armando beat him. What was going through Jim Joyce's head at the time is anyone's guess. That Jones apologized for the bad call only makes the entire episode that much worse but Galarraga took it with class and Jones was "utterly distraught"
The dominant Internet topic
As of this writing, the Jim Joyce blown call impacting Armando Galarraga' perfect game is the Internet's dominant topic. Detroit fans are upset. Baseball fans want instant replay. But the main question, and the focus of this pole below is "Should MLB Commissioner Bud Selig give Tigers' Armando Galarraga his perfect game?"
I said he should because Jim Joyce admitted the error and that alone is rare, to take a perfect game away on a blown call, then admit it. What do you think? Should MLB Commissioner Bud Selig step in and give Armando Galarraga his perfect game?
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My name is Steve. It’s a shame Galarraga lost his bid for a perfect game on Jim Joyce’s blown call. It would have been the third such game thrown in the majors this year, and the season is only approximately one-third over! This is amazing when you consider that this is the first year in baseball’s modern era that saw not one but TWO perfect games thrown.
ReplyDeleteMajor League Baseball definitely needs to take a look at expanding the use of instant replay because of this incident. I am always amazed at the fact that serious events seem to always bring about changes. This applies to many areas, not just sports.